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Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at Jamesville-Dewitt School Districy Science Week on April 25,1995. Foils prepared April 25,1995
Abstract * Foil Index for this file
| This presentation involves these foils and samples taken from the current World Wide Web and the prototype Living Textbook |
| We describe some of the impacts of the current computer and communication revolution on play, lifestyle jobs and education |
| The education discussion includes a description of the Living Textbook collaboration led by Steve Bossert -- Dean of SU School of Education |
| The new job opportunities include those in journalism and medical fields |
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| Jamesville Dewitt School |
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| 25 April 1995 |
| Geoffrey C. Fox |
| 111 College PLace |
| Syracuse University |
| Syracuse NY 13244-4100 |
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| This presentation involves these foils and samples taken from the current World Wide Web and the prototype Living Textbook |
| We describe some of the impacts of the current computer and communication revolution on play, lifestyle jobs and education |
| The education discussion includes a description of the Living Textbook collaboration led by Steve Bossert -- Dean of SU School of Education |
| The new job opportunities include those in journalism and medical fields |
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| Your Play! New and Better Video game Systems |
Your Job Opportunities!
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Your Education!
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Your Life Style!
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NII is digital superhighway provided to you by
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ÒEveryÓ Business Office, Every doctorÕs Office, ÒEveryÓ school desk, ÒEveryÓ home(potential patient) (approximately any home on cable) will have a two-way high speed link to the NII
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What does this factor of 1000 increase in performance do for the home?
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| In California, Pacbell announced in November 93 that it will use ATM (optical fibre) as a trunk information line and then use (existing) cable to reach groups of 500 customers |
| One can choose either 500 separate channels (now you get some 50-100) which are the same set offered to everybody or |
| Restricting cable to 500 homes and letting each choose from any one of trillions of channels -- some of these are provided by you or both Jamesville Dewitt school district |
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Analog as in current Cable Satellite or broadcast TV or radio represents informations by WAVY SHAPES
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| Digital as in current computers represents everything by NUMBERS and uses Òerror-correctionÓ so that you receive EXACTLY what is sent with NO distortion of text or images |
So information is more precise
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| and looks better -- your great art piece is not distorted or the medical picture is transmitted without adding or subtracting tumors/pathologies etc. |
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| Both are rapidly involving due to advances in chip and optical technologies |
| Communication advances will give us the National Information Infrastructure (NII) |
Computing Technology Advances will give us:
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| ÒAllÓ children will have the equivalent of todays $20,000 business or university computer processing capability in |
| BOTH Settop Boxes and in Video Game Controllers which will ÒjustÓ be Personal Computers |
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| This is a ÒHuman-Computer InterfaceÓ technology which allows user: |
Full Visual Immersion in world created by computer
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Multisensory Interactions
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Video Game systems under development
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| Information Video Imagery and Simulation on Demand |
| Tomorrows Communities will be centered not just on roads, libraries, schools and local businesses but EVERY community will have a High Speed Digital Community network that will both drive the community internally but also tell the outside world about business servicxes, tourist attractions etc. |
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| Computer, Telephone, and Cable Engineers |
| Journalists from both print, photography, and video fields |
| Artists, Advertising designers, Architects, Film Producers, ÒBookÓ Publishers etc. |
| Real Estate Brokers |
| School Teachers, Librarians, Government and Business workers involved with giving information to public or fellow workers |
Shop owners and staff advertising their wares on digital highway.
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| All those in medical area -- from Virtual reality to allow surgeon in Syracuse to manipulate robot devices at accident scene to Multimedia patient records |
| Law enforcement (police searching worldwide databases) and lawyers accessing case histories. |
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| Distance Learning and teacher/student collaboration over the network |
| Video information on demand |
| Text Information on demand |
| Image Information on demand |
| Interactive Simulation of physical systems |
| Geographical Information Systems |
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| The Living Textbook is a New York State funded Initiative to create educational applications that exploit leading information technologies |
InfoMall Living Textbook Educational Applications
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Living Textbook Information Technologies
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The Project Team
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Upstate Project Schools
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Downstate (New York City) Project Schools
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| askERIC Educational Database for teachers with consultation |
| The Discovery Channel -- Video Content Provider |
| NewsBank -- Text Content Provider |
| Reuters News Service |
| Syracuse Language Systems -- Learn Foreign Languages on Demand |
| TravelVenture -- Interactive travel information on Demand |
| US Air Force Rome Laboratory -- InfoVision technologies |
| WorldView Corp : Interactive Client-Server Geographic Information System |
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| Can be combined with Collaborative Technology |
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New Teaching Methodologies with Information presented with:
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Used for first time in Physics 105 -- Science for the 21st Century -- last semester in SETI module
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Input from real time video of collaborating individuals as well as:
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| Software will run on ÒSettopÓ downloaded from information server. |
| Allow Sick Children to participate in lessons while at home and in hospital |
| Allow discussions of Homework among teachers and students etc. |
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The simplest VOD applications treat InfoVision server as a ÒglorifiedÓ VCR with a huge stock of readily accessible prerecorded tapes
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Interactive VOD will have granularity of order a minute
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| Can store Books Newspapers Encyclopedias etc. as full text |
| Rather than keyword or abstract searches, search full text for say all newspaper articles with words Syracuse Bargin Price Twizzlers in same paragraph |
| Speed from parallelism - InfoVision Servers will have 64 --> 1024 processors - each scans part of text |
Digital Library
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| KODAK GIODE - Global Imagery on Demand Everywhere - Service |
| Images stored in multiresolution KODAK Photo CD format |
Browse at low resolution - select and buy images you need for
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Gradually develop sophisticated search by image content or as in newsroom example, search using textual index (initial major implementation ?)
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| Financial Modeling will allow you to make more money by investing more wisely |
Reasonably accurate simulations are available for
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These simulations of physical phenomena can be used to illustrate scientific principles in classroom
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| Video Games include travel through race courses (Crash and Burn) |
| or through ÒMystical WorldsÓ as in Donkey Kong or for the new generation of PC games such as MYST |
| Other PC edutainment systems such as Oregon Trail and Carmen San Diego provide Òadventure/knowledgeÓ filled journeys through sort of the real world |
| NASA, USGS and other sources (such as Russia) provide digital terrain data which can be used to provide totally realistic Òflight simulationsÓ |
| Current widely available 3D data has 10 to 30 meter resolution but even now, Synthetic aperture radar sensors are being tested which can be flown in a plane and give horizontal and vertical resolution of around 1 meter. |
| The software to implement this is called a Geographical Information System (GIS) |
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| Other applications that will be important with the NII include: |
Yellow Pages
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Travel Agencies
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| Community Information as part of Community network |
| Weather -- Cruise around 3D world with real weather superimposed to plan trips etc. |
Real Estate
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| NPACÕs part of Living Textbook will provide 3D journeys through both Mars (courtesy of NASA) and parts of New York State |
Computer holds digital maps and basic spatially tagged information such as
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| Teachers can add such information for particular classes to their clients or server. |
| Use for virtual field trips such as simulated trip down Hudson river or Erie canal |
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Datamine the WWW for resources relevant to K-12 Classroom
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| Local Storage at NPAC to support focused teacher selection of material and high performance delivery over NYNET |
| Selection by teacher teams provides high-value materials, efficiency in teacher preparation time and K-12 appropriate material |
| Support of WWW searchs with knoledge agents from variety of sources |
| Offer to produce CDROMÕs of selected material for sites with poor Internet access |
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| SUNY HSC is juxtaposed to Syracuse University Campus and hopefully NYNET will extend from NPAC to SUNY HSC |
Initial Experiments demonstrated to Hillary Clinton and involved:
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| SUNY HSC responsible for large rural area including Adirondacks |
Image Processing on MPP for Pathology Images using multi-resolution browsing techniques
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| Patient Records and Results of Medical Instruments and emergency room analysis can be viewed by specialist doctors from either their home or central hospitals |
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| Video and Server Technology Network is prototype of Wire Service of future using Web Technology to service Mass Communications Industry |
| NYNET ATM network extended internally to allow linkage of NPAC to Newhouse School of Public Communications and University Electronic Media Production Unit |
Faculty and students -- the multimedia digital journalists of the future will use:
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| Study Integration digital editing (AVID) technology of media field with digital web and powerful computer technology. |
Industrial partners from traditional print and analog video fields
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